NASA's Juno spacecraft has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016 and has provided some of the first clear views of the planet's poles. Using time-lapse imagery from the craft's passes over the poles, an international team of researchers led by Alberto Adriani from Italy's National Institute for Astrophysics found that eight circumpolar cyclones rotate around a single cyclone at the north pole, while the south polar cyclone is circled by five such cyclones.

The research is one of four new papers on Jupiter set to be published Thursday that use Juno data to try and better understand the huge planet, which still holds many mysteries beneath and within its dense atmosphere.

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"The configuration of the cyclones is without precedent on other planets," the researchers write. "What was unexpected is their stable appearance, close clustering and symmetry around each of the poles."

Of course, the total observation period of Jupiter's poles only spans about seven months, so it's certainly possible the cyclone pattern could change in the future, hopefully while Juno is able to capture it.

But even if the storms fade, it's probably still a part of the solar system best observed very, very far away from Jupiter's crushing gravity and who knows what else.